Podcast Episodes Episode 23: The World of Bad Dates This time in Strangerville we find out what other people’s bad dates look like so we can feel better about our own. A woman is confronted by an unexpected guest at dinner. A blind date goes wrong when a man overestimates his love
Meg Bad Dates Last night Lynne had her big holiday party at her house so I made enough meatballs to feed the entire population of a medium-sized country. By the time the party
Rebecca Frozen I want to write but my mind is frozen. This is partly because it is negative eleventy degrees today in Salt Lake City. And, I know. Some of you live in Michigan or Wisconsin or Siberia or wherever and I shouldn't complain
The Perfects Scary Gandalf It was Thursday morning and I was very late for work. Or as Brianne would call it, "having a typical morning." Brianne decided some time ago that I
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Every single December I have the exact same interaction with Brianne. I hand her an envelope with her name on it and tell her that I picked out something really
Ridiculous By The Way, I Can See Your Underwear A few years ago Matt was at family dinner with me at Bob and Cathie's house. All of my nieces and nephews were there so the place was
Ridiculous The Perils of Sitting in the Exit Row Last month I was in Chicago. I told you about that already because I don't believe in keeping secrets from you. The weekend ended after several days of shenanigans with my childhood best friend Sam (shenanigans=gossiping about everything every person we
Ridiculous Great. Now we all have lice. So the other day I posted that thing about Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie and I thought that maybe you guys would all just think it was such a stupid
Ridiculous Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie So the other day I was in the shower NOT THAT WE KNOW WHAT NAKED IS and the phrase "Strangerhood of the Traveling Snuggie" came to my mind
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Eli: What are you doing tomorrow morning? Skylar: I have a meeting that I'm leading. Eli: That sounds like a rap lyric. Skylar: Huh? Eli: You have a
The Siblings How To Get Through Winter As you know, this is The Year of Creativity for me. You can tell because of all of my artistic face tattoos. It's been a really good focus for me for 2017. I've immersed myself in more writing and Strangervilling
The Siblings The World of Babysitting I have a special treat for you today for a lot of reasons. So a few months ago I wrote that thing about how I was watching Ollie and Duncan
Podcast Episodes Episode 22: The World of Babysitting This time in Strangerville, babysitters share their worst nightmares. An aunt and a niece recount a series of unfortunate events on bath night. A teenage girl has to call in law enforcement to help scare a problem child. And a young mom learns what
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing out of town tomorrow so I dropped Duncan off at Matt's house this afternoon. Ollie was taking his 9-hour nap on Matt'
EMBARRASSING When Your Brain Turns Off As you are aware, Skylar is a smart person. Like, I think he might actually be a genius [https://www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2017/07/medical-school.html]. Sometimes I think that
Ollie Eleven Eleven We know Duncan was born sometime around the beginning of November, but we don't know the exact date. I explained to him recently that his biological mother didn&
Ridiculous Two Adults Came To My Door So the other day I posted that thing about how I ain't much for book learnin' and I told you how I'm trying to read
Ridiculous It's A Classic! When I was in high school I read nearly zero books and I've been feeling guilty about this for mumble mumble cough years. So guilty that if I
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I have a work thing this week in Chicago, or as Bob and Cathie like to call it "DON'T GET MURDERED." I'm staying with
Airbnb Personal Assistant: Apply Now One of the reasons you shouldn't be friends with me is I will turn you into my personal assistant. Look. It's not like the job doesn't pay. It pays exceptionally well. Not money. No. It doesn't
Ridiculous Escape Room Jolyn's birthday is next week so we decided to have a birthday thing for her. Skylar found what the kids are calling an Escape Room and signed up
Grandma Christine I have this monthly ritual with G-Mac. I go pick her up and drive her to my parents' house where we have dinner and gossip about all of the
Bob and Cathie The World of Spooks For a long time I have thought about how TV shows from our childhood (I'm assuming every single one of you is exactly my age) are so different
Podcast Episodes Episode 21: The World of Spooks This time in Strangerville, four stories about exaggerated fear. College kids cause a stir in their small town. A child remembers a gas station encounter much more colorfully than his father. A bunch of 80s and 90s kids discuss a traumatizing episode of a
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions I woke up this morning to an angry email from Brianne demanding to know "why the hell" I hadn't shared with you all the story of
